Educational Testing, Social Justice, Money & Labels

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.~ Albert Einstein

Dr. Zak Stein – Dr. Stein’s educational testing interests focus on the interface between social justice and education, including specializations in developmental psychology and ethics. He studied philosophy and religion at Hampshire College, and then educational neuroscience, human development, and his doctorate in philosophy of education at Harvard University.

While a student at Harvard, he co-founded what would become Lectica, Inc., a non-profit dedicated to the research-based, justice-oriented reform of large-scale standardized testing in K-12, higher education, and business. He writes on a broad range of topics including the philosophy of learning, educational technology, and the fundamental theory of education translated to applications for everyday life.

Neuroscientifically validated details also matter for educational testing. Current testing requirements, including IQ, don’t adequately cover mind complexity. Listen and comment. Consider: should the term for current standards of educational testing results and their subsequent applications with students more accurately be characterized by the term social injustice?

Educational Testing Evolves

Testing doesn’t adequately cover mind complexity. Imprecise results create myriads of challenges for everyone concerned – from students to teachers to school administration and parents.

Bottom line: our system of education-labels in the context of new measurements, new data and evolved mind considerations is woefully inadequate and potentially damaging to the lives of those mislabeled. This discussion is critical, indeed absolutely essential, dare I say mandatory, for anyone involved with any educational process. Feel free to weigh in below with a comment.

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“I am available for speaking engagements on a variety of topics, including Mind, Brain, and Education, Developmental Psychology, Human Development, Philosophy of Education, Social Justice, Educational Psychopharmacology, Educational Testing, and Integral Meta-Theory. I’ve been an invited speaker and workshop leader at venues such as Harvard University, The National Security Agency, Integral Institute, Buckingham Browne & Nichols, Amherst College, and a variety of academic conferences.

At times I also offer consulting services to schools and other educational institutions around assessment, philosophical alignment of mission, vision, and practice, and developmental psychology. It has been an honor to have served in various consultancy roles with organizations such as the Department of Mind, Brain, and Education at the Harvard University Graduate of Education, Brandies University, Phillips Exeter Academy, the Long Trail School (VT), and Glastonbury Public Schools (CT).

I occasionally provide academic coaching to graduate students and professional writers, helping them frame problems, build a course of study, conceive a research project, or simply manage their energy and stress during the completion of complex academic tasks.

I’m not a life coach or ghost writer; but if you come to me with a passion, I will help.”

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Dr. Zak Stein: Rethinking Educational Testing CBJ/093

I’m what you call a high achieving dyslexic – never did well in school [2:33]

Testing is at the heart of what makes schools a potentially unjust institution [3:22]

I saw the neurosciences in disarray and the deeper issues as philosophical [5:58]

Lectica

Thanks

Until next time, thanks so much for joining us here at CBJ again. Have some feedback you’d like to share? Leave a note in the comment section below. If you enjoyed this episode, please share it using the social media buttons you see at the bottom of the post.

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Special thanks to Zak for joining me this week. I look forward to our next travels together.

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